I have lived in London for almost 20 years and the city never ceases to amaze me. Did you know that 47% of London is green space? Neither did I. Or that there are 8 million trees in the city? That’s one for every person who lives here. Eco watch rated London as the 5th […]

Local Travel We love music. Along with food it’s one of the things we love discovering on our travels. We rarely buy mementoes when we are on the road (mainly because we hate carrying too much stuff) but we always seem to purchase a cd from a local band we have discovered. We have eclectic […]

The Friday Photo Project | 3 sides of London No matter how far or how often we travel, London will always be home. There is a buzz in the air that keeps us invigorated and alive. Add the fact that it’s the best place in the world for the arts and you get two happy […]

England is a beautiful country. With its picture postcard villages in the Cotswolds to the coves and beaches of Cornwall, you are never far from stunning landscapes on this green isle. We visited the Lake District in autumn a few years ago and it has to be one of the most beautiful places we have […]

Photos of Richmond, London When this post goes live we will be waking up to our last day here in Mexico after a wonderful 3 months. Us travel bloggers by nature are a positive bunch so we will not be sad at our departure from Mexico but we will be excited at our return to […]

London street art If you take a walk around the Whitechapel / Spitalfields area of London you will soon notice all the amazing street art. The more you explore the more you will discover. You will get a real snap shot of current politics and news from the pieces as most of the art is […]

Eating London Last Friday we were lucky enough to be invited on the Eating London food tour. Considering that our two greatest passions are travel and food it will no doubt surprise you to find out that this was our first food tour anywhere in the world. I am sure it will be the first […]

Wandering around Winchester Travelling from London to Vietnam by train takes quite a while as you can imagine. Equally travelling anywhere around Australia normally means a big expedition. Only after doing these journeys did I realize how small Britain is and how easy it is to get anywhere. So with that in mind, one saturday […]

Brixton Village Market One of our favourite past times when we travel is visiting local markets, especially markets that revolve around food. I can still smell the strong pungent aromas of the food being cooked in Penang and I remember trying to navigate the chaos of the markets in China. The great thing about living […]

Magic and mystery in Glastonbury We try to go to the Glastonbury festival every year but both of us had never been to the actual town of Glastonbury so this year before heading to Michael Eavis’s fields we decided to spend a few days in the town itself. We loved it. It’s unlike any other […]

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Directory of Volunteering Opportunities Abroad

Are you looking for more meaning when you travel?

Do you want to give back to the communities you visit or help preserve the places you see? Do you want to help the animals you see suffering on the streets?

Volunteering is a great way to really understand a destination, interact with locals and meet like-minded travellers. Plus you build up your skill set too.

This first edition of globalhelpswap’s Directory of Volunteering opens up these opportunities and much more.